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Postwestern cultures : literature, theory, space

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Postwestern cultures : literature, theory, space / edited by Susan Kollin.
Publication
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2007.

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Kollin, Susan
Description
xix, 267 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
Series Statement
Postwestern horizons
Subject
  • American literature > West (U.S.) > History and criticism
  • American literature > History and criticism
  • West (U.S.) > In literature
  • Popular culture in literature
  • Ecology in literature
  • Homosexuality in literature
  • Multiculturalism in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-263).
Contents
Introduction: postwestern studies, dead or alive / Susan Kollin. Pt. 1. Newer new Wests. Spectrality and the postregional interface / Stephen Tatum -- Everyday regionalisms in contemporary critical practice / Krista Comer -- Critical regionalism, thirdspace, and John Brinckerhoff Jackson's Western cultural landscapes / Neil Campbell -- Architecture and the virtual West in William Gibson's San Francisco / Michael Beehler. Pt. 2. Nature and culture. What's authentic about Western literature? And more to the point, what's literary? / Lee Clark Mitchell -- Some questions about sexless nature writing / Davide Oates -- Backpacking and ultralight solution / Capper Nichols. Pt. 3. Contested Wests. Scheduling idealism in Laramie, Wyoming / Beth Loffreda -- Frontier mythology, children's literature, and Japanese American incarceration / John Streamas -- I'm just a lonesome Korean cowgirl; or adoption and national identity / Melody Graulich -- Cultivating Otowi Bridge / Audrey Goodman -- The romance of ranching; or, selling place-based fantasies in and of the West / Nancy Cook.
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JFD 07-4655
ISBN
  • 9780803211148 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0803211147 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780803260443 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 080326044X (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2007011384
OCLC
105436036
Title
Postwestern cultures : literature, theory, space / edited by Susan Kollin.
Imprint
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2007.
Series
Postwestern horizons
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-263).
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Kollin, Susan.
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JFD 07-4655
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